'Shrek is OK but do not call me Lodewicus' | The Independent 'Shrek is OK but do not call me Lodewicus' Friday 16 July 2010 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Louis Oosthuizen answers to most things except Lodewicus Theodorus, which he was named, after his grandfather. "Not even my family can call me that," he said. "I won't talk to them if they call me that. That's a passport name. I've always been Louis, right from the beginning." But more recently he has become "Shrek", after the animated ogre. The relaxed 27-year-old South African has a dazzling smile, which ironically he displayed liberally when explaining the nickname. "It's the gap in my teeth," he said. "My friends say I look like Shrek – some of my friends. You can't choose your friends, so what can I say?" He used to have a Shrek headcover but his caddie threw it out of the bag because he thought it was bad luck. Oosthuizen did not want to offend the caddie so went along with it. How laid-back is Oosthuizen?

When he picked up a new sports car from the sponsors at the BMW PGA Championship and drove it home to Manchester, only to find it was too wide for the garage doors, he simply bought new doors. As the world No 54, his name is hardly unknown, just unpronounceable. A number of low rounds and high finishes on the European Tour have meant the cognoscenti have had to get used to mangling the Oosthuizen name – it's Wuhst-hy-zen, apparently. But when you are leading the Open Championship and have equalled the St Andrews halfway record of 12 under par, you might expect to be introduced correctly in the media centre. But the "Well done, Peter!" greeting he was not expecting, since he has rarely been confused with the giant Englishman Peter Oosterhuis, the former Ryder Cup player. Graciously, Oosthuizen just laughed it off. "It's probably the position anyone wants to be in, playing a major on the weekend," he said, sticking to the real matter at hand.

"It's what we work to achieve and I'm just happy with the two rounds I've put together." He was even happier as his 67, impressive in the tricky morning conditions, became even more valuable as Rory McIlroy and the other later starters headed into the afternoon gales. Though Oosthuizen has shown a particular liking for the desert swing on the European Tour in the Middle East, where conditions are far removed from those buffeting St Andrews this week, he grew up playing at Mossel Bay club, on the Garden Route, where you can see the sea from every hole and where it can also get pretty windy. Eight years ago he knocked it round there in 57, with two eagles and 11 birdies, so he is not afraid of the wind or the mental challenge of "going low", as the professionals say. For three years before turning professional Oosthuizen was in the Els Foundation, based at Fancourt. "It was unbelievable what he did for me," he said. "He helped with expenses and travelling round the country but mainly he was just a great mentor.

Probably without him, I wouldn't be here now." Up to the age of 10 Oosthuizen played a lot of tennis – it runs in the family – but as soon as he picked up a golf club he was hooked. He has won five times on the Sunshine Tour at home but his first win in Europe did not come until the Andalucian Open in March, when not even the naturist beach next door distracted him. Returning to Manchester, his base over here, he had to leave the trophy at Malaga airport because Monarch Airlines deemed it a "dangerous object" and refused to accept it as hand baggage. What Oosthuizen did bring home was a bundle of confidence. "I've been playing well all year but the win got my confidence going," he said. "I had been a bit frustrated on the golf course for a few years because I knew I could win tournaments, I'd done it at home, but it never happened in Europe. But I set my head to have fun, to make sure I enjoy myself.

You know, life is not just about golf." With more than 24 hours to kill before teeing off in the third round, Oosthuizen went back to his rented house with his wife, Nel-Mare, and their seven-month-old daughter, Jana. "She will definitely occupy me for the rest of the day," he said. Oosthuizen is not the first golfer to find his best form now that he is called "Daddy".

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(My money is on Sequoyah Stonecipher) Written by dianagram English Pronunciation : Doug Wayne Goosh First/middle/last names subject to misspelling: Last Spellczechs degree of difficulty (1 – 5 diamonds, 5 being hardest): ♦♦♦♦♦ Valid in Scrabble (name(s) also valid Scrabble words in and of themsel(ves)?: None Playable in Scrabble (name(s) able to be formed with standard 100-tile English set)?: All Best Anagram Genius anagram: (None of any quality) Method for remembering spelling: Acronym phrase The story: Doug Wayne Gwosdz was a career backup catcher for the San Diego Padres, batting a putrid .144/.244/.202 (for those of you not familiar with “slash stats”, this refers to batting average / on-base percentage / slugging percentage) from 1981 through 1984. He possesses an unremarkable first name (I can find no record of his first name being anything other than Doug. You didn’t even think to name him “Douglas”, Mrs. Gwosdz?).

He also has a non-descript middle name. These however are overcompensated by his “consonant jambalaya” of a last name. Gwosdz appears to be a variant of the “ rare to begin with ” surname of Gwozdz , and gwozdz would seem to be the Polish word for “nail” (which seems to be a good sign if you aspire to be a major league catcher). Approximately 17,000 different players have suited up for a Major League Baseball game. Of those 17,000, about 4,300 of these players had last names of exactly six letters. Of those 4,300, a mere 330 or so had but ONE vowel in their name.¹ So what Doug lacked in on-field performance, he made up for in alphabetic rarity. Upon hearing “Goosh”, I can only wish that Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh could have been the real-life batterymate of Gwosdz. It would have rivaled “Spahn and Sain and pray for rain”. We could have had “LaLoosh and Gwosdz . . .

and the batters go whoosh!” First/middle/last names subject to misspelling: All Spellczechs degree of difficulty(1 – 5 diamonds, 5 being hardest): ♦♦♦♦ Valid in Scrabble (name(s) also valid Scrabble words in and of themsel(ves)?: None Playable in Scrabble (name(s) able to be formed with standard 100-tile English set)?: All 3 Best Anagram Genius anagram: Cold, duteous Zionist whorehouse The story: Louis Oosthuizen just won the 2010 British Open on Sunday. This was the first Major championship for the 27-year-old native of South Africa. Mr. Oosthuizen’s full birth name is a triple threat of tongue-twisting. Let’s try tackling his first name . . . umm . . . first. Here is the most important bit of advice I can give you in remembering how to spell certain words/names . . . try and break the word up into smaller, recognizable subwords, prefixes, suffixes, abbreviations and/or acronyms. So, let’s see if we can tear apart “Lodewicus”.

Lodewicus is problematic because it doesn’t look like it would end with a “cious” sound. ( LOU-dew-ic-ious ) But let’s try and break it down just the same. It the contains the subword “ lode “, but “wicus” doesn’t really subdivide well. However, what if we divided it into Lo/dew/ICUs. Then we’d have three subwords/acronyms we know and can easily relate to/remember. From there, you many want to try and put the words into some kind of sentence such as “The lo dew of the ICUs“. This is an example of a mnemonic device . Simliarly, we can apply the same principle to his middle name (Theodorus), with The/odor/us, as in “The Odor of us“. Now his last name, that’s a whole different kettle of fish. And speaking of fish, oost happens to be, amongst other things, the Dutch word for odor , while Huizen is Dutch for houses .

So is Louis affiliated with the a fish house, or is he a fan of heretofore unrecorded Weird Al interpretation of The Animals hit (namely, “House of the Rising Smell”)? Sorry, I digress. Depending on who you ask, his last name could be pronounced WOOST-hay-zen, or OAST-hay-zen, which would at least give you a fighting chance of spelling it correctly. Its a bit messy, but you CAN break “Oosthuizen” up into smaller subwords prefixes and abbreviations: Oo : is a prefix referring to egg or ovum St: is an abbreviation for street Hui : is a Chinese word meaning conference or secret society Zen: is a type of Buddhism In future posts, I’ll provide links to foreign name pronunciation guides, along with other tips/hints on spelling those hard-to-spell athlete names. In the meantime, congrats to Mr. Fishhouse Mr. Oosthuizen. Written by dianagram with 3 comments I’ve always been a bit of an eclectic, nerdy geek. My idea of fun in grammar school was to add numbers in my head faster than the teacher could do it on the chalkboard.

My mother taught me to play Scrabble at an early age, and some 35 years later, I spend most of my vacation time playing in Scrabble tournaments around the country and studying word lists (no definitions please). I’m the type of person who never met a pun she didn’t like, and takes pride in being able to recite the powers of 2 beyond any customary need (2 to the 22nd is 4,194,304 for those of you curious). Sports has always been a big part of my life. My dad was a Yankee fan, and so I became one, even if we DID live a mere 10-minute train ride from Shea. I’ve blogged about sports, played softball and basketball, participated in fantasy leagues, and spent entirely too much time watching Joe Morgan opine on baseball. I have a good friend named Jeremy. We met through Scrabble, and found that we had a mutual love of baseball. We came up with our own variation of Scrabble, in which the last names of baseball players would be acceptable, and if challenged by your opponent, you would have to state the player’s first name, with Baseball-Reference.com the final judge.

CALZONE doesn’t fit on the board? Well then, how about one-time Brewers slugger Sixto LEZCANO ? A few weeks ago, Jeremy showed me a newspaper ad for an all-sports spelling bee to be held on June 3rd at the ESPN Zone in Manhattan. Now, I enjoy watching the kids apply their supple, still spongy brains towards the Scripps National Spelling Bee . But, the last spelling bee I took part in came back at P.S.152 in Queens, and nowadays my synapses aren’t firing quite as frequently. Still, the thought of a sports-centric bee was intriguing. No need to remember the proper spelling of laodicean , a word I’ve never had a need to use, nor seen in anything I’ve read. I could limit it to “words” like “Yastrzemski” and “Krzyzewski”, people/words I’m still reading/using today. There probably couldn’t be that many sport-related spelling savants . . .

I couldn’t conceive that I’d be competing against a bunch of word nerds still living in their parent’s basement not able to go out and play until they nail the correct spelling of the entire South African team World Cup roster. So, when Jeremy suggested we apply for this contest, I said “sure … why not!” I didn’t know if we were going to be selected, since they were limiting the competition to about 50 spellers and I was sure the New York metro area could muster up 50 brave souls to do just about anything . I also didn’t know when we would hear from them if we were selected. So, I kind of put the Bee out of my mind. Flash forward to Tuesday, June 1st. I receive the following e-mail: Dear Contestant, Congratulations! You’ve been selected to participate in ESPN Zone’s 3rd Annual Sports Spelling Bee. The Spelling Bee will take place at ESPN Zone in Times Square on Thursday, June 3rd at 7:00pm. ESPN Zone is located at 1472 Broadway on the corner of 42nd Street.

Contestants must check in at the registration table on the Mezzanine Level between 6:00pm and 6:30pm. Contestants who arrive after 6:30pm may be disqualified. You will need a valid picture ID as you must be 18 years of age or older to participate. You will be asked to spell the names of sports figures (coaches, players, broadcasters, etc), alive or deceased. We may ask you to spell either the first name OR last name so you should be prepared for either. You are encouraged to bring along your own cheering section. Seating will be available on a first come, first served basis. Please note, there will be food and beverage minimums of $10 per person per hour to be seated at a table in the Screening Room (2nd floor), where the event will take place. Standing room may also be available at the Screening Room Bar for spectators. Please send an email to Susan.Abramson@disney.com confirming you received this email and still plan to participate in ESPN Zone’s Sports Spelling Bee. Thank you and G-O-O-D L-U-C-K!

ESPN Zone New York Louie Who scores another win for South Africa | New Pittsburgh Courier Louie Who scores another win for South Africa Posted 6 years ago. by Paul Newberry Associated Press Writer ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP)—The South Africans have a new soundtrack of success. The drone of the vuvuzela has been succeeded by the skirl of the bagpipe. One week after beaming in pride at its historic hosting of soccer’s World Cup, the nation torn apart by apartheid just a generation ago had another reason to stick out its chest: Louis Oosthuizen won the British Open in a dominating romp. On Nelson Mandela‘s 92nd birthday, no less. SHADES OF BAGGER VANCE—South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen celebrates on the 18th green with his caddie Zack Rasego after winning the British Open on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, July 18. A White Afrikaner with a Black caddie on his bag crossed over the Swilcan Bridge, tapped in the last putt and lifted the claret jug. Oosthuizen just wanted to celebrate the moment with family and friends.

Others realized there was something more significant going on at the Old Course, another instance of sports transcending a societal divide. “It’s fantastic,” said Gary Player, the most prominent golfer to come out of South Africa. “Wonderful things are happening to South Africa. I went back for the final match of the World Cup, and they did a way better job than people imagined.” Of course, soccer’s biggest event won’t solve the everyday problems and racial tensions that still linger in South Africa. Nor will one man winning a golf tournament. But there’s no denying the pride felt by those who cheered on Oosthuizen while waving the post-apartheid colors of their nation—red, blue, green, yellow and black—or wearing jackets and shirts bearing the words “Bafana Bafana,” the nickname of South Africa’s soccer team. “It is a great event for all South Africans, especially because it is the birthday of Nelson Mandela,” said caddie Zack Rasego, who usually converses with Oosthuizen in Afrikaans, the language despised by Blacks during apartheid as a symbol of the ruling White minority.

“It’s a great day for us.” It was a great week for Oosthuizen, who started the week as such an unknown that the R&A felt compelled to put out a fact sheet with 11 things one needed to know about the 27-year-old from Mossel Bay. None of those tidbits was as compelling as his golf game, which was rock-solid for all four rounds and never gave anyone a chance to make it close. He led over the final 48 holes of the championship, closing with a 1-under 71 that left him at 16-under 272 overall. No one else was within seven strokes. “It felt a bit special out there,” he said. Oosthuizen, who had made the cut only once in eight previous majors, claimed the lead for good way back in the second round. Some figured he was the beneficiary of a fortuitous tee time—in the morning, before the wind started gusting more than 40 mph—and would surely falter in the spotlight of the weekend. Everyone waited for the collapse. It never came. He turned in 13 pars and four birdies on Saturday, giving him a commanding four-stroke lead going into the finale.

He started Sunday with seven more pars before his bogey-free streak finally ended with a 6-foot miss at No. 8. Again, everyone wondered if he might finally realize this was a position he’d never been in before. Oosthuizen drove the green at the par-4 ninth, a tempting 352 yards away, and rolled in a 50-foot putt for eagle. “I needed one putt to really get my rhythm going,” he said. “And that eagle on 9, that got me started.” Oosthuizen had only six bogeys all week, and the last of those was a short miss at the next-to-last hole when he was essentially on an extended walk up 18, reveling in the cheers of the crowd at every stop. About all that did was cost him a chance to break the Open record for largest margin of victory in the modern era, an eight-stroke win last accomplished a decade ago by Tiger Woods at this very course. He missed a 10-footer for birdie at the easy closing hole, costing him a chance to share the mark. What about Woods?

He had romped to dominating wins at the last two Opens on the Old Course, but putting woes that followed an opening 67 ensured he was never much of a factor. He had changed putters before the week, then went back to the old one Sunday. It didn’t make much difference when he made a pair of double-bogeys on the front side, settling for a mundane 72 that left him 13 shots behind the winner. “Actually, I’m driving it better than I have in years,” Woods said. “But I’m just not making the putts. It’s ironic that as soon as I start driving on a string, I miss everything. Maybe I should go back to spraying it all over the lot and make everything” on the green. Joining Woods on the list of biggest Open routs was about the only thing that didn’t go right for the man dubbed “Shrek,” which is sure easier for most people to pronounce than his actual name: Lodewicus Theodorus Oosthuizen. He didn’t seem too bothered as he hugged his wife and their 7-month-old daughter, then collected the claret jug that will be in his safekeeping for the next year.

Back in Oosthuizen’s homeland, they were coming up with a new nickname for their newest hero, who joined Player, Bobby Locke and Ernie Els as Open champions hailing from South Africa. “We have the Big Easy,” said Dennis Bruyns, CEO of the Southern African PGA, referring to Els. “Now, we have the Ice Cool.” Also On New Pittsburgh Courier: GOLF | LISTAndalucia Montgomerie steps down as European captain after Ryder Cup victory Colin Montgomerie has announced that he will not captain Europe again after his side’s thrilling Ryder Cup victory over the United States at Celtic Manor. Europe beat Corey Pavin’s US side 14½-13½ to win back the trophy on a delayed final day Monday. “I will not be doing this again,” said the Scot. “I think [...] Ryder Cup 2010 set for first ever Monday finish The Ryder Cup appears set for a first ever Monday finish after the start of the third day’s play was delayed on Sunday when torrential rain returned to leave the Celtic Manor course waterlogged.

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Andrews 2010 British Open: Louis Oosthuizen is making golf fans learn his name by taking charge at St. Andrews Gallery Sunday, July 18, 2010 ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND Practically everybody on earth expects you to fold. All of the roars are for someone else, not you. You know what they're thinking: "Who is this guy, and how do you pronounce his name? What is he doing here, and why doesn't he get out of the way?" So what do you do? You hold up. Lodewicus Theodorus Oosthuizen is something of an inconvenience in the British Open . No one can quite deliver the correct inflection in his name, or explain how the gap-toothed South African has managed to outscore all of the European Ryder Cup team, as well as Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. All around him are more popular players -- the entire United Kingdom no doubt wishes he would move aside and let Englishmen Paul Casey and Lee Westwood have the glory. Everyone keeps talking about who the real leader is going into Sunday's final round at St. Andrews .

"I know nobody expected me to be up there," he said, after his 69 gave him at least a four-stroke lead by himself for the second straight day. "I mean, no one can even say my surname." Here's how outwardly unpersuasive Oosthuizen is as a champion: In March, after he won the first European tour event of his career at the Open de Andalucia in Spain, he took his trophy with him to Malaga Airport and tried to carry it onboard a Monarch Airlines flight. Security declared it "a dangerous object" and made him leave it behind. Nevertheless, there is something in Oosthuizen's demeanor here that suggests he could be a tough leader to crack. Up close he's got a burly build and a tough jaw, one that he could shave three times a day and it would still show dark stubble. He looks durable, and hungry. He's the son of a farmer, for whom nothing has come very easily -- his parents couldn't afford to pay his travel expenses, and he was fortunate to have the financial backing of countryman Ernie Els's youth foundation from the age of 17 until he went pro.

He's a practiced all-weather player who grew up on wind-whipped Mossel Bay, South Africa, and he has handled everything St. Andrews can dish out, including pressure, unpredictable gusts, and a bee sting on his forearm during a practice round last weekend. "I'm swinging it really nicely," he said. "I was happy with the way I managed myself." But there is nothing hardscrabble about Oosthuizen's swing. In the past year he's become a more accomplished player than casual golf fans may realize: He's ranked 54th in the world this season, with seven top-20 finishes. He's got a sweetly compact motion that, at least so far, has been as reliable as a metronome. There's a stillness in his form that suggests the swing will hold up under pressure: There aren't a lot of parts to it, and nothing moves unless he commands it to. If galleries aren't fully cognizant of how good he is yet, insiders are, and so are his fellow players.

You don't shoot three rounds of 69 or better and hold a multiple-stroke lead in the British Open at St Andrews for two consecutive days if you don't have some serious stroke. "He's a good ball striker," Mickelson said. "He can really play. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if he were to play a good solid week and win." But his attitude has been as important as his aptitude. More than anything, Oosthuizen has an unselfconsciousness that is serving him well as the stakes mount. When his abysmal previous record in major championships, missing seven of eight cuts, was pointed out, he just grinned. "It wasn't very great, was it?" he said. "It was a matter of not believing in myself, I think." But asked if he is surprised to find himself in this position, he said frankly, "Not really." Which is not to say Oosthuizen is impervious to pressure: When he bogeyed the opening hole Saturday with a shaky three-putt, "a bit of nerves," he admitted, a collapse seemed inevitable, if not imminent.

But he steadied himself with five straight pars, and as his round got progressively more confident, he had perhaps the most relaxed body language of any of the leaders on the course. He will need all the looseness he can muster in the final round, because he will be paired with native son Casey, and viewed as the spoiler by the galleries. "I'll get one or two claps, I hope," he said. There are all kinds of precedents to suggest Oosthuizen probably can't win. Remember, just a month ago Dustin Johnson was swinging the club like an angel and had a three-shot lead going into the final round of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. It was gone by the time he reached the fourth tee. On the other hand, there are plenty of reasons to think Oosthuizen can do it. No one else in the top seven on this leader board has ever won a major, either. There have been unheralded leaders before, but few with such an pretty swing and unflappable disposition.

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